Star Wars: Episode VII to be directed by J.J. Abrams **NON SPOILER THREAD** — Page 63

Bingo, you can't be both Mark Hamill and Harrison Ford.

Here what about this title? STAR WARS EPISODE VII: Really really old. It would fit the fact that the actors are getting old and here is a good motto to go with it. An epic adventure of escaping the retirement home. So what do you think?

I was just making fun of the actors age to be in this movie sort of like how the Simpsons was making fun of Star Trek. STAR TREK XII: very tired.

Some of the later original cast Trek films are a good model for Abrams to look to. Especially The Undiscovered Country, as the characters were older, getting ready to retire, and readily acknowledged this was the last hurrah.

If Luke and the gang have one last grand adventure, and then pass the torch, whether all at once, or over the next three films, I'll be happy.

Can't wait until we see the cast in costume again. The first photo leak is inevitable.

But the ST films explored the characters aging in a beautiful melancholic way. Sometimes it was even quite tragic, McCoys father, Kirk having no kids etc. Hell UC is all about aging.

Not an approach that would work for the fun atmosphere of SW I feel. Just show the OT gang as older, don't make it a running gag JJ for christ sake.

I wouldn't mind a cast list sometime soon so I can know whether Chewbacca will be in the film. To me, that more than anything else would signify whether the EU will be revered or largely ignored before I get too far along in my post-ROTJ EU exploration. 

Do you have a source for that?

Hal 9000 said:

Do you have a source for that?

I really hope he says The Latino Review

Ryan McAvoy said:

But the ST films explored the characters aging in a beautiful melancholic way. Sometimes it was even quite tragic, McCoys father, Kirk having no kids etc. Hell UC is all about aging.

Not an approach that would work for the fun atmosphere of SW I feel. Just show the OT gang as older, don't make it a running gag JJ for christ sake.

Um...David Marcus doesn't count?

I don't mean the movie should be downbeat or melancholy, just that our heroes act with some maturity and experience gained in the thirty years since we last saw them on Endor. And knowing when to let the new characters do the heavy lifting. Luke can still get away with Jedi derring-do though and throwing the old JK rulebook out the window.

Yeah, I wasn't too happy about that plot point. However, there was never anything onscreen to indicate Saavik stayed on Vulcan in TVH because she was pregnant.

SilverWook said:

Ryan McAvoy said:

But the ST films explored the characters aging in a beautiful melancholic way. Sometimes it was even quite tragic, McCoys father, Kirk having no kids etc. Hell UC is all about aging.

Not an approach that would work for the fun atmosphere of SW I feel. Just show the OT gang as older, don't make it a running gag JJ for christ sake.

Um...David Marcus doesn't count?

I don't mean the movie should be downbeat or melancholy, just that our heroes act with some maturity and experience gained in the thirty years since we last saw them on Endor. And knowing when to let the new characters do the heavy lifting. Luke can still get away with Jedi derring-do though and throwing the old JK rulebook out the window.

I meant long after David (The son he meets for about a week) in ST7 when he suddenly realises Sulu has spent the last twenty-odd years raising a daughter and he's spent the time chasing his youth and is left all alone. Plus that movie has got the heartbreaking scene where Picard realises the same thing when he gets the message that the rest of his family has died in a fire.

That's the kind of deep emotion SW doesn't go to. Not that it doesn't have powerful emotion, it just handles it totally differently and less directly. I can't imagine Han having a scene where he starts crying and has a talk with Ships-Counselor Mothma.

I saw Cowboys VS Aliens and I felt emotional impact when Daniel Craig,s character in the movie was so upset that that alien chick died at the end and Harrison Ford was like " It's okay she is in a better place now"

I thought it was needlessly cruel and forever puts a grim pall over the Family episode. At least David died protecting Spock and Saavik on some level, and his death at the hands of the Klingons colors Kirk's attitudes in TUC.

If any of our heroes have to go to the big cantina in the sky, let it be a death that counts for something, not a cheap plot twist for it's own sake. And no dropping a moon on any Wookiees!

cain spaans said:

I saw Cowboys VS Aliens and I felt emotional impact when Daniel Craig,s character in the movie was so upset that that alien chick died at the end and Harrison Ford was like " It's okay she is in a better place now"

Hey look.....your 'comma' key works. Too bad you used it in the wrong place.

Davnes007 said:

cain spaans said:

I saw Cowboys VS Aliens and I felt emotional impact when Daniel Craig,s character in the movie was so upset that that alien chick died at the end and Harrison Ford was like " It's okay she is in a better place now"

Hey look.....your 'comma' key works. Too bad you used it in the wrong place.